Luristan Socketted Bronze Axe Head Sar-e Tabar

CIRCA 2200-1600 B.C.

4 1/8 in. (308 grams, 10.6 cm).

Comprising a wide curving blade and long neck with a band of herringbone decoration at the base, tubular neck with claw-like extension to the rear and a decorative diagonal band to both sides.

Provenance

Acquired on the Swiss art market, 1997.
Private collection, Europe.

Literature

Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, pl.XXI, nos.51,67, for the type; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, cat.344, for similar.

Footnotes

Similar examples of axeheads were produced in Luristan, and early parallels date back to 2200 B.C. They have moulding bands at the base, and the shaft is often crosshatched, showing different lozenge-shaped figures.

CONDITION

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